Apple’s Siri can now make animal sounds like a duck quacking or a lion roaring

Kif Leswing, CNBC:

Apple’s Siri assistant can now quack like a duck if you ask it nicely.

To try it out, users have to update to iOS 14.3, the newest version of the iPhone operating system, and say, “Hey Siri, what does a duck sound like?” In response, Siri will play the natural call of a ruddy duck.

On Monday, Siri started to play short audio clips in response to questions about what something sounds like. Sounds now built into the system include animals, instruments, and vehicles, and Apple says there are hundreds of options. On an iPhone or iPad, Siri also brings up a picture of the animal and a link to more information from Wikipedia.

As of this writing, I’ve not been able to reproduce this behavior and, searching Twitter/web, have not encountered other mentions of folks getting this to work. I asked Kif about this and he said:

It should be rolled out to everyone in the US and most other countries today.

So keep checking.